bureaucratization and de-bureaucratization is offered. Institutions, agency, and macro forces all matter, but there is no agreement …

While it is commonplace to argue that political institutions are a source of inertia and resistance to change and that … reformulated and it is observed that institutions have a role in generating both order and change and in balancing the two. Second …

order to come to grips with this we present an institutional variant of deliberative theory, which understands democracy as …. We show that the EU has established an incomplete system of representative democracy steeped in a distinct representation …

institutions could be conceptualized, to what degree institutions have independent and endurable implications, the kinds of … political phenomena they impact, the mechanisms through which they do so, and the processes through which institutions emerge …-interested actors maximizing their expected utility. Second, a society-centered perspective that sees political institutions and …

The unequal access of interest organizations to the EU institutions is often associated with biased European politics … face of EU regulation. Else, the interaction patterns vary along the EU institutions and their levels of decision …

redistributed, and serious conflicts along a single axis are less likely to develop. If EU institutions really are that important …

concepts and/or insights from these theories can be profitably applied to social and political institutions. First, we … to push an analogy between genes (which are rules governing cell reproduction and behavior) and political institutions …